8 killed in mass shooting at southern Brazil school
Two gunmen have opened fire at a school in south-eastern Brazil, killing at least six students and two employees, officials say. At least 17 other people, mostly children, were also shot and taken to hospitals, in which several are in serious condition.

Firefox Send - Self-destructing file sharing service
In 2017, Mozilla experimented with a service that let you transfer 1GB files by sharing a web address with the recipient. If you are logged into a Firefox account, you can share files of up to 2.5GB and enable a limit of up to 100 downloads.

Google releases first Android Q beta for Pixel phones
You should be able to disable or reset your advertising ID without being tracked, and Android Q makes that possible. Since Nougat, opening apps got faster over time as Android learned frequently used part of code from an app.

Oman, UAE grounds Boeing 737 MAXs after Ethiopia crash
Southwest is the world's largest operator of the 737 MAX 8 with 34 jets, while American flies 24 MAX 8s and United 14 MAX 9s. The Air Line Pilots Association also backed the USA and Canadian regulatory agencies' decisions to ground the aircraft.

Verizon launches 5G in Chicago, Minneapolis at $10 extra cost
Sprint (s) has said it will offer 5G starting in May in Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas, and Kansas City but hasn't disclosed pricing. The offer is available only on unlimited plans, which now start at $75 for one person or $160 for a family of four without 5G.

Consumer inflation rises to 2.57 per cent in February
Slowing domestic and global growth are keeping inflation in check even as a tight labour market is driving up wages. In the fuel and light category, the rate of price rise slowed to 1.24 per cent from 2.20 per cent in January.

Facebook is now down with people all around the globe having difficulty accessing the world's largest social network.

It's interesting to note just how many social network sites we use that are owned by Facebook though.

Today, we're reporting that Aussies are once again calling their local authorities due to a social media outage, which is affecting users globally.

"Up and running here.for now.But I predict a baby boom in 9 months, Remember that day FB went down and people were forced to notice each other?", this person wrote. Some users saw a message that said Facebook was down for "required maintenance".

A dedicated denial of service attack, or DDoS attack, is when someone floods a website with fake traffic causing the site's performance to suffer when there are not enough resources for real traffic. We are now being told that this BGP Routing issues was not related to the outage.

Regulators, and now prosecutors, appear intent on determining whether this was done in ways that let users know what was happening and protected privacy. However, users across the globe have complained about not being able to access the site.